Richard Hughes told a briefing in Liverpool that the projected rise in state pension spending would contributed to growing UK national debt.

A report into the Post Office Horizon scandal “shows the full scale of the horror” unleashed on people just trying to do a day’s work, a former subpostmistress has said. Jo Hamilton was falsely ...

Tory former Cabinet minister Lord Norman Tebbit, who has died aged 94, was an “icon in British politics”, Kemi Badenoch said. The Conservative grandee was one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest political ...

A man has been taken to hospital after being shot by armed police outside a rural village pub in Kent. The shooting took place at around 9pm on Monday at The Park Gate Inn, in Hollingbourne, Kent.

Post Office bosses should have known Horizon was faulty but “maintained the fiction that its data was always accurate” when prosecuting subpostmasters, the first tranche of a public inquiry’s final ...

The FCA said Monzo’s financial fraud systems and controls ‘failed to keep pace’ with its rapid growth in customers numbers in recent years.

A 15-year-old boy is on trial for the murder of Harvey Willgoose, who was stabbed during a lunch break at All Saints Catholic High School, Sheffield.

French president Emmanuel Macron said talks with the UK would also cover defence, security and nuclear energy.

Ofgem found more than 34,000 prepayment meter customers between 2014 and October 2023 did not receive final bills within six weeks.

Ravinder Naga falsely confessed to stealing £35,000 as a result of the Horizon IT faults in a bid to save his mother from prosecution.

Musician and producer Jordan Rakei recorded more than 50 sounds such as travellers’ footsteps, passports being stamped and aircraft engines.

WeightWatchers has emerged from bankruptcy after slimming down its debts, as it pledged to combine weight-loss jabs with lifestyle changes amid “quick fixes” dominating the market. The company said it ...